Andy Woodruff · Cartographer

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Raster map projection with ActionScript 3

2 July 2008 tagged as3, projections with 9 comments

This is probably a stupid idea, but that’s never stopped me before. Lately some of my Flash mapping colleagues and I have come to rely on transforming geographic data—say, shapefiles—into various map projections on the client side via the ActionScript vector drawing methods. (See, for example, a post by my friend Zachary Johnson with an [...]

Continuous curves with ActionScript 3

8 June 2008 tagged as3, curves, drawing, isolines with 32 comments

Seeing my comrade Zach Johnson’s impressive work on generating isoline maps in Flash, I offered to try to lend a hand with smoothing the lines (point-to-point connections) he was deriving from interpolations via Delauney triangulation. I first turned to the fantastic book Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move!, in which Keith Peters presents a [...]

Drawing dashed lines with ActionScript 3

30 May 2008 tagged as3, drawing with 46 comments

Drawing in Flash dynamically with ActionScript is a jolly fun time, but when doing so one of course lacks some of the finer controls of drawing the graphics manually in the Flash authoring environment. One such deficiency is dashed lines, so a while back I made a simple DashedLine class in AS3 to use here [...]